Advertisements I’ve spent the last two years cradled in a small mountain town in the Pyrenees, the land that forged the blood of my ancestors. I swear they whisper to me at night, half-smoke and half-memory, and for a person who has…
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Advertisements Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low is the kind of film you watch in a state of quasi-paralysis. The 1963 noir is both taut moral thriller and enthralling procedural — a film of relentless jaw-clenching tension and compulsive rhythm that sets the…
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Advertisements Wes Anderson is, quite famously, a details guy. Perfect symmetry, immaculate composition, and absolute devotion to every tiny element of his dollhouse creations — his work (and that of his behind-the-scenes collaborators) is dazzling in its dedication to the little things.…
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Fittingly, Kelly Reichardt's Cannes-closer is a portrait of a power-keg period of history glimpsed from the periphery, and a wry, withering film about living without integrity in an era that demands it.…
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Advertisements “You have to believe in the illusion, or you’ll go mad.” So says an anonymous speaker in Payal Kapadia’s glittering All We Imagine As Light. The film opens on documentary footage of Mumbai’s hustle and bustle, accompanied by voiceovers from real…
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Advertisements Director Ali Abbasi’s breakthrough came by way of Border, a singularly strange fairy tale about a troll who stumbles upon a child trafficking ring while working as a Swedish customs agent. Six years later, there’s little trace of that same eccentricity…
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Diao Yinan's neo-noir The 'Wild Goose Lake' compellingly drums up panic, and is an expertly shot entry in the genre.…
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Jessica Hausner´s English language debut is one of the strangest films in the Official Competition at Cannes this year.…
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Michael Angelo Covino's feature-length directorial debut The Climb, which won the Un Certain Regard coup de coeur jury prize, builds off of the success of his short film of the same name.…
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Pedro Almodóvar latest film, Dolor y gloria (Pain and Glory), which premiered at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival and won Best Actor for Antonio Banderas, brilliantly returns Almodóvar to his previous form.…
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